In the doctrine of the "Living Constitution" ("Constitucion viviente"), originating in the United States and linked to "noninterpretivism", it is understood that the Constitutions is something ultimately emancipated from the written text. From this perspective, the Constitution is what both the people and the government recognize and respect as such. In this regard, when judges construe the Constitution, instead of looking for already made solutions to dissipate constitutional doubts they should consult the aspirations, beliefs and values of the present community, and only then proceed to prepare beneficial constitutional answers according to these elements.For the legitimization of this stance, the «"generations" argument» is used. (Le., the generation having passed the Constitution has no rigl1t to impose on the next, the present one, its ways of understanding and enforcing the supreme law), as well as the «"present constituents" argument» (where the important thing is not being faithful to the historical constituent but to the people of our present days, who are those that ultimately possess the real constituent power).Of course, the "Living Constitution" vision is criticized for the insecurity dose implied in any Constitution being able to say different things in different times. Moreover...

“Constitutional boterism” was coined by the constitutionalist Jaime Castro meaning that in the first fifteen years of the political Colombian constitution of 1991, there has been an inflation constitutional reforms that had led to 22 legislative acts. Throughout the centuries, many authors have posed various definitions of the meaning of a constitution. It is the primary source from which the rest of the laws that rule a society arise. Since the Constitution of 1991 there have been enforced many legislative acts and there has been enacted a great number of construed decisions by the Constitutional Court. All these phenomena have been called “constitutional boterism” or “legislative inflation.”; El término “boterismo constitucional” es una expresión utilizada por el constitucionalista Jaime Castro para referir que en los primeros quince años de vida de la Constitución Política de Colombia de 1991, se ha presentado una inflación de reformas constitucionales que han dado lugar a 22 Actos Legislativos. Varios autores, a lo largo de los siglos, han realizado diferentes definiciones acerca de lo que se entiende por constitución. La constitución es la fuente primaria de la cual se derivan todas las reglas que rigen y regulan a la sociedad. A partir de la Constitución de 1991 se han promulgado un gran número de leyes así como varios actos legislativos...

This article intends to show how Neoconstitutionalism responds to the development of a constitutional theory and practice, both of which are progressively convergent. Such development has played an important role on the decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court and on the science of public law in Germany. Such development is born from the adoption of the Constitution as an order of values. Definitely, it is no other thing than a transformation occurred due to the adoption of a theory about what the Constitution is: an order of values, where the structural elements of the State obey to principles which are also found in the basis of the fundamental rights system. What is new and capital about this form of constitutionalism are the material and substantial qualities of the Constitution which make it practically omnipresent in every creative operation and application of law.; El presente artículo pretende mostrar cómo el neoconstitucionalismo se corresponde con el desarrollo de una teoría y una praxis constitucionales progresivamente convergentes, en el cual han desempeñado un importante papel la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional Federal alemán y la ciencia del Derecho público alemana, y que nace de la adopción de una concepción de la Constitución como orden valorativo. En definitiva...

The author analyzes some of the relevant aspects of the state of Antioquia’s first constitution, issued in 1812. It was the third constitution issued in Colombia. It was also the second constitution with a republican perspective, even if it recognized the authority of the king, Fernando VII, under the condition of his being released from imprisonment by the French in Bayonne. The 298 sections of Antioquia’s 1812 Constitution are organized into 10 titles. Most of these sections are similar to those included in the Tunja Constitution of 1811, and most of them contain some of the institutions established 180 years later in Colombia’s 1991 Constitution.; El autor desarrolla como tema el estudio de algunos aspectos relevantes de la primera Constitución del estado de Antioquia, expedida en 1812, tercera Constitución expedida en nuestro territorio colombiano y segunda con matiz republicano, no obstante que en ella también fue reconocido como monarca don Fernando VII, siempre y cuando saliera del cautiverio de los franceses en Bayona. En diez títulos y 298 artículos están contenidos preceptos similares a los consignados en la Constitución de Tunja de 1811, la mayoría de ellos esperanzadores y prospectivos de algunas instituciones consagradas solo 180 años después...